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by lwf 9y ago
Almost all Linux distributions rebuild upstream software from source -- this ensures everything is built from the same toolchain (gcc/libc etc), and that the binaries distributed match the source. It also allows for ease of patching in
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by lwf 9y ago
Consider re-writing it as prose, instead?
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by lwf 9y ago
It's impressive how much low-hanging fruit exists here… I recall interning at Google in 2012, and asking about the suicide-information Onebox. It matched obvious search queries like "I want to kill myself" and provided data a
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by lwf 9y ago
6.857 is a class taken by undergraduates, and this is a final project paper, not a published paper.
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by lwf 9y ago
Dropbox has run compute* in its own datacenters since 2008 or so. *: That is, work that does not interact heavily with content
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by lwf 9y ago
Level 3 still has some facilities there; I don't think they ever used the space that Dropbox was in. (And since vacated; it's occupied by Stripe and Lyft now)
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by lwf 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I did work on one of the previous Transparency Reports[1]. From our most recent one: > Between July and December 2016, Dropbox did not comply with any non-US government legal process unless issued by a US court
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by lwf 9y ago
Early SSL/TLS termination is to reduce latency; the longer-lived connections from PoPs to Dropbox datacenters is over a TLS 1.2 connection with PFS. See an earlier blog post[1]: > We use TLS 1.2 and a PFS cipher suite at both our or
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by lwf 9y ago
OP was referring to freedom of speech, I assume?
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by lwf 9y ago
Gandi's been a long-time supporter of Debian[1], providing preferred pricing (their best "bulk rates") for years. I assume the CA migration was also donated. I'm personally quite glad the SPI CA is gone, and that we remo
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by lwf 9y ago
More specifically, it aims to be POSIX `sh`-compatible, which gives a large speed boost in many cases. There's a `checkbashisms` command in Debian's `devscripts` package to ensure scripts will work correctly under both shells.
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by lwf 9y ago
> You're not. von Rossum has to maintain Python 2.7 as part of his day job. *van Rossum I wouldn't say that's an accurate statement of what Guido does every day :) (nb: I work at Dropbox, and have worked with Guido at Drop
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Celebrating our successes and winding down as an organization(blog.openhatch.org)
1 points by lwf 9y ago|0 comments
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by lwf 10y ago
Well, he owns the company, so it's moot: > The 50-year-old crane operator and president of crane leasing company Vertikal Solutions was helping to build the 34-story Hilton Garden Inn in midtown.
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Do GitHub's updated terms of service conflict with copyleft?(fsf.org)
6 points by lwf 10y ago|0 comments
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by lwf 10y ago
Why would that third party answer honestly? Aside from the possible negative reputation damage, that party is almost certainly prohibited from answering Waymo as part of standard bilateral NDAs executed between partners. In a suit, at least
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by lwf 10y ago
I work on the security engineering team at Dropbox, and help manage our open source programmes. Note that we aren't doing ``.format()`` or ``%``, but passing the fill text as the second parameter to ``.execute()`` — this is the correct
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by lwf 10y ago
The recommendation to use a 1024-bit RSA key worries me. In an era of passive, bulk surveillance, that seems too weak if you're not going to be using any additional transport-layer security. The performance argument is only relevant fo
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by lwf 10y ago
The "timestamped IP address", 172.24.96.31, is in the private network RFC1918 space — I doubt that was the IP address of the end-user. :)
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by lwf 10y ago
> I'd just like the freedom to edit with whatever tool I wish to use. How should whatever tool you're using handle the case when another person is editing the document at the same time as you?
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by lwf 10y ago
Askbot exists[1] -- its look-and-feel is more akin to StackOverflow than Quora, but it's pretty widely deployed[2][3] [1]: https://askbot.com/ [2]: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ [3]: https:/&#x2
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by lwf 10y ago
This has actually been a feature in OpenSSH since 5.4, see https://blog.habets.se/2011/07/OpenSSH-certificates.html or the CERTIFICATES section of `ssh-keygen(1)`.
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by lwf 10y ago
Just FYI, Zulip uses a similar UI model to Zephyr, but doesn't use the Zephyr protocol internally. (For example, Zephyr doesn't really work when one user is behind a NAT) (I worked for Zulip, and have contributed to the open-sou
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by lwf 10y ago
There's a mirror of it at the obvious place[1], with instructions on how to contribute in the header. This took me the time it took to type in the URL as a guess. "wordpress github", "wordpress source" both have thi
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by lwf 10y ago
The lede of your link appears to disagree with you: > Most individuals with psychiatric disorders are not violent. Although a subset of people with psychiatric disorders commit assaults and violent crimes, findings have been inconsistent
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by lwf 10y ago
There are a bunch of reasons this could've happened -- corrupted downloads are not unheard of on poor connections. Maybe the file was truncated. Or maybe it was the NSA. Without any further analysis, this isn't particularly notewo
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by lwf 10y ago
As a long-time non-student-but-affiliate MIT person, initially as "some person who volunteered to work on some SIPB project[1]", I've been continuously amazed by the degree of openness of the MIT community. I could just walk
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by lwf 10y ago
The GPL doesn't force your hand; "you have to release your code" is never the case. You can always just stop infringing :) (IANAL, this is not legal advice)
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by lwf 10y ago
I'm able to use hangouts.google.com in both my personal Google Apps domain and my work's Google Apps domain. Almost certainly a setting buried somewhere deep in the Admin Console. :(
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by lwf 10y ago
> Richard Stallman envisioned open source No, he envisioned Free Software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

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